TPM's video—and given the source, if there's any sleight of hand in the editing it's going to be in Milroy's favor—shows a man getting in the face of a cop, yelling at him and initiating a physical altercation. It's right there in the first two seconds of the video. So "[w]hy did the Capitol police wrestle state Representative Nick Milroy (D) to the ground?" Well, watch the video, go up to any cop, emulate Milroy's behavior, and see what happens. That's why.

"Ha!" Holmes exclaimed, grabbing the other man and throwing him to the ground with a sudden wrench of his powerful forearms. "You thought to fool me with a pitiful disguise such as that, Moriarty -- ?!?"

Because the cop finally had it with yet another doofus yelling, Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Just before the altercation captured on video, Milroy had approached the officer and asked, very politely, if he could see the violence inherent in the system. The officer obliged, screaming, "Bloody peasant!"

The volatility surrounding the collective-bargaining debate spilled into the night Wednesday when police were called to a German Village restaurant after a group verbally accosted a gathering of Senate Republicans.

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The commotion eventually led to pushing and shoving with the restaurant staff and owner, before police arrived to calm the situation as a police helicopter hovered overhead. No senators were involved in the physical altercations, and no charges have been filed.

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LaRose said it didn’t take special intelligence training to notice that while the lawmakers were eating, a woman walked past the window several times, poked her head in the door and got on her cell phone.

“It was planned,” LaRose said. “They gathered as a group and waited until they had about 10 people before they caused a disturbance.”

When the group burst into the restaurant, the woman, Monica Moran, deputy director of public affairs for SEIU District 1199, raised her hands in the air, yelled “Can I have your attention?” and then shouted “something nasty,” LaRose said. Soon after, the rest of the group of men and women joined in with a chant.

“They stormed through my dining room,” said George Stefanidis, owner of the Easy Street Cafe. “I told them they had to leave, and they wouldn’t.”

Oh oh! I was listening to Thom Hartman or Randi Rhodes or whatever last night. They were so LIVID and ENRAGED about the WI-R Rep who called the union protesters "slobs"!!!! They practically wanted to murder the guy.

Alice Cooper: Well, I'm a regular visitor here, but Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors. The French missionaries and explorers were coming here as early as the late 1600s to trade with the Native Americans.

Pete: In fact, isn't "Milwaukee" an Indian name?

Alice Cooper: Yes, Pete, it is. Actually it's pronounced "mill-e-wah-que" which is Algonquin for "the good land."

Wayne Campbell: I was not aware of that.

Alice Cooper: I think one of the most interesting things about Milwaukee is that it's the only American city to elect three Socialist mayors.

Wayne Campbell: [to the camera] Does this guy know how to party or what?

Meade has a point. Police officers are under laws and must spend their days keeping laws. To analogize to an obedience school trained dog, they first do what they are trained to do. Any sudden switch over to join the Lawless Crowd would make them schizophrenic.

Gateway Pundit has the same footage, but (unless I'm going crazy) with an extra couple seconds in the beginning. Sure looks like the Rep. initiated contact with the cop. We'd all be in jail for that, never mind the scuffle that followed.

garage mahal said...Great point Meade. Maybe a few of these cops like Walker, therefore tackling a state rep was in order.

I can just hear the ear piercing shrieking of all the Malkin cry babies if this were a Republican.

Your desperation is showing, garage. A Republican would: 1. show his ID, 2. obey a police order, 3. not initiate contact with an officer, 4. not resist arrest, and 5. would not put on the stunt you see in the video in the first place.

The point I was making in my comment above about not all of the police being in on the collusion of the unions, protesters, Democrats was that some of the police don't really care about the politics one way or the other. They are just doing their jobs and they're doing them well: No one enters without proper ID.

A few more stunts like this one and more and more police officers will lose any sympathy they have for the protesters. The troublemakers have arrived but they haven't been planted by Walker and the Koch brothers. They are union thugs, anarchists, and lefty dead-enders. And even, no doubt, a few assemblymen (D).

How sad that the base guess about this is that the cops are either pro- or anti- Walker. That should not make any difference. It is because of the public sector unions that we now have to consider – will the police serve and protect based on political afflation and if he/she knows ours? That's one creepy left-wing universe I don't want to live in.

How sad that the base guess about this is that the cops are either pro- or anti- Walker. That should not make any difference. It is because of the public sector unions that we now have to consider – will the police serve and protect based on political afflation and if he/she knows ours? That's one creepy left-wing universe I don't want to live in.

Welcome back to the 19th century when all cops were on the take. IT's a recent innovation to have corruption-free police forces. Remember Serpico?

If the coffee beans haven't been harvested by some poor oppressed third-world serf who gets paid pennies a day (and they should thankful for it but are they? Nooooo...) in the sweltering heat under the watchful eye of a machine-gun-wielding foreman, well, it just doesn't taste right.

The story is up online...he identified himself, showed them his credentials and then refused to let him in. The instance is currently being investigated, although the rep said it's been a long couple of weeks for everyone.

And by the way, if you want to talk about misconstruing context, who can forget about the video of Meade trying to go into the Capitol--the police were absolutely right to deny him entry. He had no credentials and everyone else who wanted to enter the building had to wait in line. Meade tried to make something out of nothing and decided to throw a hissy fit in the process.

On another note, the most entertaining video was when they took down the signs (that shouldn't have been up) from the memorial and confronted the cop about them. 1) Hilarious and 2) I guarantee he just threw them in a dumpster.

Why is the teabaggers here constantly bring up how much the teachers will make (including benefits), as if it's a massive amount of money for the work they do...while at the same time, whining about those who make over $200,000 (individuals; with couples at $250,000) being taxed another 3% (of the additional income)...not being fair, because they're not really "wealthy?"

If those who make $200,00-250,000 are just plain ol' folks, why are the teachers such a greedy bunch?

Another hot under the collar test is the one where the traffic on an overcrowded road starts being directed and stopped by road construction workers, and done in a poor way. Obey them or challenge them? Quick, what is the answer. The solution is for an "Authorized" Sworn Officer in uniform with badge and gun to do the directing.Then everyone is patient and docile. It works for our Church that stops Roswell Road traffic with uniformed Off duty Atlanta Police on Sunday mornings. But what beats all is the Dallas Cowboy's Stadium which uses police officers to completely stop the Interstate going past the stadium to catch a plane at to DFW while the Sunday Game parking lot empties ahead of you.

"They are union thugs, anarchists, and lefty dead-enders. And even, no doubt, a few assemblymen (D)."

In Meade we trust.

In case some of the trollers here didn't see my question to Mr. Meade yesterday, I asked if he had seen in his many travels about the capitol this past week, the much-fabled 'Peaceprints' so ably advertised on folks rear bumpers.

Needy - "Your desperation is showing, garage. A Republican would: 1. show his ID, 2. obey a police order, 3. not initiate contact with an officer, 4. not resist arrest, and 5. would not put on the stunt you see in the video in the first place."

Sorry, Needy, but according to Mr. Milroy, he did in fact show his I.D.:

TPM:Milroy also offered some more context for what happened Thursday.

According to Milroy, he "just wanted to get into my office to get my personal effects."When he tried to enter the building, an officer approached him. He showed her his ID, but she told him he was not allowed to enter.

"I said that's ridiculous," Milroy said. He walked by the first officer and showed his ID to a second officer, the one who ended up tackling him. According to Milroy, the first officer began to yell that he wasn't allowed in.

"I told [the second officer] I was a state representative and I needed to get to my office," Milroy said. "I think there was some confusion going on. I think I was being a little more aggressive than I probably should have."

Milroy said he sought out the officer who tackled him later on Thursday.

"I told him I'm sorry it got that far, and it shouldn't have gotten that far," he said. "He told me that he was stressed out, too."

Milroy doesn't blame the officers for what happened, and said law enforcement officers "have been doing an exemplary job" since the protests began. Instead, Milroy places the blame on Walker.

Fen - If you don't like the moniker, you and the rest of the idiots you hang with shouldn't have come up with it in the first place.

People who don't do research or think before throwing out such terms usually end up spending their time trying to beg off or explain (Kind of like the Huckster the last few days trying to back away from bald-faced lies about our president.)

Once again:

The Tea Partiers not only invented the term, they did so in order to inflict a similar double entendre onto the President, the Democrats, and liberals in general.

Now, they’re trying to re-cast the term as a slur, on a par with the “n-word,” hurtful to all the Tea Party members who are just ordinary moms, dads, sons, and daughters.

In emails, protest signs, t-shirts, and online, early Tea Party literature urged protesters to “Tea Bag the White House,” and to “Tea-bag the liberal Dems before they tea-bag you.”

The suggestion is that the metaphoric “tea-bags” be shoved in the mouths of the President, Democratic members of Congress, and even ordinary citizens who identify as liberal Democrats.

The idea that they just didn’t know the term’s only (at that time) meaning is belied by the fact that they obviously knew it was negative (and non-consensual), since they didn’t want it done to them, and also because it only had one meaning.

If those who make $200,00-250,000 are just plain ol' folks, why are the teachers such a greedy bunch?

I know, don't respond to the troll.

However, the difference is between private industry and public/government employees.

The private industry employees are being paid by the private (non-governmental) company. It is their business how much they pay their executives and employees. If we don't like it, we don't have to patronize the company and they will either go out of business or lower their compensation. If the shareholders of the company don't like it, they can band together and vote out the Board of Directors.

It is a private company and I don't give a crap how much they pay their employees because if they pay too much and try to pass the costs on to me, I probably won't be using their product.

Public employees are paid for by all of us tax payers. We have no choice but to pay for their benefits and wages. We also don't get any voice in how much we think is too much.

The public employees can't go out of business. Government doesn't have to play by free market rules because we don't have any alternatives to government. It is a monopoly. They have us over a barrel and can just continue to raise taxes and fees to get more more more.

The difference is private verus government.

Probably a total waste of pixels to feed the troll, but there you have it.

According to Milroy, he "just wanted to get into my office to get my personal effects."When he tried to enter the building, an officer approached him. He showed her his ID, but she told him he was not allowed to enter.

"I said that's ridiculous," Milroy said. He walked by the first officer and showed his ID to a second officer, the one who ended up tackling him. According to Milroy, the first officer began to yell that he wasn't allowed in.

"I told [the second officer] I was a state representative and I needed to get to my office," Milroy said. "I think there was some confusion going on. I think I was being a little more aggressive than I probably should have."

Milroy said he sought out the officer who tackled him later on Thursday.

"I told him I'm sorry it got that far, and it shouldn't have gotten that far," he said. "He told me that he was stressed out, too."

Milroy doesn't blame the officers for what happened, and said law enforcement officers "have been doing an exemplary job" since the protests began. Instead, Milroy places the blame on Walker.

Jeremy: "If you don't like the moniker, you and the rest of the idiots you hang with shouldn't have come up with it in the first place."

No, but homophobic lefties and sneering lefty homos came up with the term which was immediately grabbed by Jeremy who then and now considers it the absolute funniest and insulting descriptive word ever.

I'm observing this thread on my phone. It's not my intention to get in a carry comment fight with a complete stranger, much less try and rifle through the site's archives on my phone. But I promise to find some cites when I get a chance!

The National Review: The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” A protester was spotted with a sign saying, “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.”

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The Tea Partiers not only invented the term, they did so in order to inflict a similar double entendre onto the President, the Democrats, and liberals in general.

Now, they’re trying to re-cast the term as a slur, on a par with the “n-word,” hurtful to all the Tea Party members who are just ordinary moms, dads, sons, and daughters.

In emails, protest signs, t-shirts, and online, early Tea Party literature urged protesters to “Tea Bag the White House,” and to “Tea-bag the liberal Dems before they tea-bag you.”

The suggestion is that the metaphoric “tea-bags” be shoved in the mouths of the President, Democratic members of Congress, and even ordinary citizens who identify as liberal Democrats.

The idea that they just didn’t know the term’s only (at that time) meaning is belied by the fact that they obviously knew it was negative (and non-consensual), since they didn’t want it done to them, and also because it only had one meaning.

Bunny - "However, the difference is between private industry and public/government employees."

It doesn't matter where the people work...my comment relates to your whining about taxing the "wealthy"...as if making over $250,000 is not out of the ordinary for regular middle-class Americans...and that teachers making $50,000 or so makes them some kind of money grubbing assholes. (And many teachers could obviously make more elsewhere, but instead do what they feel is best for themselves and the students they teach.)

If you want to counter, at least stay in the same ballpark...an why you and the other teabaggers here rag on teachers of all people is pretty strange...even for you idiots.

Jeremy: The National Review: The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” A protester was spotted with a sign saying, “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.”

Yes Jeremy, one sign said "TeaBag them before they TeaBag you". Is that your defense? That because you heard Chris Rock call himself a n-gger, its okay to call all blacks that?

Its a homophobic slur used to marginalize members of the Tea Party. You know its offensive to then and thats why you use it. This is who you are.

But by all means, continue to do so. Its a convenient disqualifer that you are not to be taken seriously. Beclown yourself with your fanatasies of sucking our balls as much as you wish.

Unions gave us weekends, child labor laws, minimum wage, sick days, vacation, collective bargaining and workers having the ability to earn a living wage.

And I'll bet more than half of the teabaggers here have parents that belonged to unions. Unions that fought for a reasonable wage, and the kinds of benefits that provided insurances and other supportive measures for your family.

Unions gave us weekends, child labor laws, minimum wage, sick days, vacation, collective bargaining and workers having the ability to earn a living wage.

Actually no. Most of that is myth.

Regardless, what have you done for me lately? Unions force workers to join their gang if they want to work in that state. Then unions force workers to donate money to crooked Democrat politicans in a kickback scheme that Micheal Corleone would envy.

Imagine that, in order to get a job in your city, you first had to join the RNC and donate $1000 a year to Newt Gingrich. You cool with that?

Wow... the conservatomanic commenters are really showing their batshit insanity in this thread.

Representative dude tries to get into his workplace with his ID, as Representative dudes are wont to do. Of course he's entitled to enter the Capitol after hours! But he's tackled, clearly because the Capitol police are more than a little stupid.

But, eh, these consevatomanics need to find a way-- any way!-- of pinning the blame on Milroy.

Funny, I don't have any problem "telling what to make of this" at all. Imagine getting that treatment when you go back to your office to get your personal belongings. Real horrorshow.

I can't tell from the video, but probably Milroy was wearing a large ID badge around his neck, which is easily visible even at a distance. Or at least it would be, if their CO had enough common sense to station someone somewhere where they could see it before he gets to the door. Putting officers on only one side of a revolving door, & choosing to position them on the INSIDE? Yeah, that's some serious epic fail alright ... pray you never have to rely on the mastermind of this set-up for your personal security.

Due to the visible solidarity of many local police with the protestors, Walker has brought in outside LE who don't know him from Adam - so this incident is directly his responsibility. Nobody is forcing him to fight the unions - & his own fellow representatives - tooth & nail. If this was truly a matter of saving Wisconsin money, he could've amended his measure long ago & saved the state & himself a lot of bad PR: the unions have already caved on all of his cutbacks.

PS: note that the methodological template for training new recruits being used by LE throughout North America is now none other than that bastion of orderly conduct, tolerance & moderation, the LAPD. So if you enjoyed the thrilling action on this video, stay tuned: you could be next!